Divine Pymander. Asclepius

enamored of it Completing the sentence from the previous page: "the soul is infinitely enamored...", and forgets all evils; and when it has learned and known its Father and Progenitor, it can no longer apostatize original: "Apostatize" (to renounce one's faith or turn away from a previous path), or depart from that Good.

7. And let this, O Son, be the goal original: "end" of religion and piety; which once you have reached, you shall both live well and die blessedly, while your soul is not ignorant of where it must return and fly back again.

8. For this alone, O Son, is the way to the Truth, which our ancestors original: "Progenitors" traveled in; and by which, making their journey, they at last attained the Good. It is a venerable way, and plain, but hard and difficult for the soul to travel while it is in the body.

9. For first, it must war against itself, and after much strife and dissension original: "Dissention", it must be overcome by one part; for the contention catchword: tention...